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Tokyo 2020 has been postponed, so let’s look back at previous Games
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Seoul 1988, men's 100m (after Ben Johnson's disqualification) … gold: Carl Lewis, silver: Linford Christie, bronze: ???
Calvin Smith
Leroy Burrell
Dennis Mitchell
Robson da Silva
Athens 2004, women's 800m … gold: Kelly Holmes, silver: Hasna Benhassi, bronze: ???
Maria Mutola
Jearl Miles Clark
Janeth Jepkosgei
Jolanda Ceplak
Moscow 1980, men's 200m … gold: ???, silver: Allan Wells, bronze: Don Quarrie
Carl Lewis
Bernhard Hoff
Pietro Mennea
Silvio Leonard
Rio 2016, women's 100m hurdles … gold: Brianna Rollins, silver: Nia Ali, bronze: ???
Kristi Castlin
Sally Pearson
Tiffany Porter
Kendra Harrison
Mexico City 1968, men's long jump … gold: Bob Beamon, silver: ???, bronze: Ralph Boston
Lynn Davies
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
Randy Williams
Klaus Beer
Sydney 2000, women's 400m … gold: Cathy Freeman, silver: ???, bronze: Katharine Merry
Monique Hennagan
Lorraine Fenton
Marie-José Pérec
Tonique Williams-Darling
Beijing 2008, men's 100m … gold: Usain Bolt, silver: Richard Thompson, bronze: ???
Asafa Powell
Justin Gatlin
Walter Dix
Kim Collins
Barcelona 1992, women's 400m hurdles … gold: Sally Gunnell, silver: Sandra Farmer-Patrick, bronze: ???
Deon Hemmings
Kim Batten
Janeene Vickers
Tatyana Ledovskaya
Montreal 1976, men's decathlon … gold: Bruce Jenner, silver: Guido Kratschmer, bronze: ???
Daley Thompson
Mykola Avilov
Yuriy Kutsenko
Raimo Pihl
London 2012, women's heptathlon (after Tatyana Chernova's disqualification) … gold: Jessica Ennis, silver: ???, bronze: Austra Skujyte
Carolina Klüft
Jennifer Oeser
Lilli Schwarzkopf
Brianne Theisen
Munich 1972, men's 4x400m relay … gold: ???, silver: Great Britain, bronze: France
East Germany
West Germany
USA
Kenya
Los Angeles 1984, women's javelin … gold: Tessa Sanderson, silver: ???, bronze: Fatima Whitbread
Tiina Lillak
Trine Solberg
Petra Felke
Beate Koch
Atlanta 1996, men's 400m … gold: Michael Johnson, silver: Roger Black, bronze: ???
Davis Kamoga
Alvin Harrison
Gregory Haughton
Butch Reynolds
Atlanta 1996, women's long jump … gold: Chioma Ajunwa, silver: ???, bronze: Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Inessa Kravits
Lyudmila Galkina
Fiona May
Heike Drechsler
Seoul 1988, men's 110m hurdles … gold: Roger Kingdom, silver: ???, bronze: Tonie Campbell
Greg Foster
Jon Ridgeon
Jack Pierce
Colin Jackson
10 and above.
Two-thirds of your way to the gold
11 and above.
Well placed for four years down the line
12 and above.
Agonisingly just outside the medal positions
13 and above.
Battering your way through to the bronze
14 and above.
A memorable sprint to a deserved silver
15 and above.
Gold, a homecoming parade and a postbox in your honour
9 and above.
Out of the semis … but nowhere in the final
8 and above.
Still in contention … until the final lap
7 and above.
Getting dropped just before the bell
6 and above.
Well it's more than a third
5 and above.
Like a sprinter entering the 5,000m
4 and above.
Clipped quite a few hurdles, there
3 and above.
It's all about the taking part, after all
2 and above.
Didn't so much drop the baton as throw it out of the stadium
0 and above.
The quiz equivalent of 15 false starts
1 and above.
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